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Nov 22, 2009 · (“Pirate Latitudes” explains the use of greenish white-lead-and-vinegar cerise to give Sir James a fashionable pallor and red seaweed-ochre dye to prettify him further.) Then he attends the...
Dec 3, 2009 · “Pirate Latitudes,” the posthumous thriller by Michael Crichton, enters the hardcover fiction list at No. 2.
Pirate Latitudes is an action adventure novel by Michael Crichton, the sixteenth novel to be published under his own name and first to be published after his death, concerning 17th-century piracy in the Caribbean. HarperCollins published the book posthumously on November 26, 2009.
- Michael Crichton
- 2009
Pirate Latitudes. The year is 1665, and a Spanish treasure ship sits alone in a fortified Caribbean cove. It is as if the fates have placed it there, for only one man has the skill and daring to try to capture it: Captain Charles Hunter, a Puritan-born scholar from Boston turned Caribbean privateer.
Dec 22, 2009 · It's set in the mid-17th century Caribbean. And it's about pirates. Alan Cheuse reviews the Michael Crichton novel Pirate Latitudes.
Nov 24, 2009 · Michael Crichton. 3.49. 50,347 ratings4,976 reviews. Jamaica in 1665 is a rough outpost of the English crown, a minor colony holding out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire.
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Mar 21, 2019 · “Pirate Latitudes” is an adventure novel that makes learning fun. Although it’s fiction, we get a window into the culture and traditions of the time and place, and the precise steps by which high-seas thievery plays out.
